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Workforce Development

Improving Access to Higher Education

Competitive Skills Scholarship: Provides workers with a grant to help them earn a degree or certificate in certain education or training programs.

Lifelong Learning Accounts: Helps workers and employers work together to finance skill development and lifelong learning.

Prior Learning Assessment: Allows students to obtain college credit for training and skills obtained outside the classroom.

Source: Maine Department of Labor

On the Job Training / Apprenticeship

Governor’s Training Initiative:Provides eligible businesses with partial reimbursement of training costs for the hiring of new employees, and/or retaining or upgrading their existing work force.

Registered Apprenticeship: Allows workers to learn new skills through on-the-job training and related classroom instruction.

Pre- apprenticeship: Includes two years of customized high school academics coupled with on-the-job training during the junior and senior years.

North Star Alliance Initiative: An industry focused economic development initiative devised to drive business and create jobs in coastal Maine. The initiative includes business, R&D, education, and workforce development centered on Maine’s boatbuilding, marine, and composite industries.

Source: Maine Department of Labor

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Application Process

Workforce Development

Knowledge Transfer Alliance
215 Stevens Hall
Orono, Maine 04469
Phone: (207) 581-1850 | Fax: (207) 581-1851

The University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
207.581.1865